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   Hide Window PlusFree

   Hide Window Plus is a utility that lets you instantly hide any Window off the screen with a single keystroke or right click on the close button. It allows the users to quickly run a screensaver, turn off the monitor, or mute sound using hotkeys. The program runs invisibly in the background and doesn’t clutter the system tray, and it can hide single windows as well as several programs at once. The single operating utility can be hidden by right-clicking the close button with a customizable keyboard shortcut.

   Programs to be hidden should be added into the Hide Programs list and are hidden with a keyboard shortcut. The application itself invisibly in the background and doesn’t create any icons in the system tray, and can be installed in “stealth mode” without creating any icons in the Start Menu. The app aims to help to protect privacy by providing a means of easily hiding apps out of sight.

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   MinimeFree

   Minime is a portable and straightforward Windows utility designed to help you hide any currently running application with the help of hotkeys. With Minime, the users can minimize all these apps to the system tray if they don’t feature this option already and save a lot of space on the Window toolbar. Additionally, it is less distracted by other apps while working on the PC and minimizes apps neatly organized in the Minime’s context menu.

   The utility doesn’t create a separate icon for each compressed app in the System Tray that stores all shortcuts windows on its menu. Whenever you want to restore any of them or all at the same time, all you have to do is right-click on the main icon. At startup, it creates an icon in the system tray area, so the users can open its context menu and bring up the options panel to define the hotkeys for minimizing the active window and showing all windows.

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   RBTrayFree

   RBTray is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by right-clicking its minimize button. Customers can hold the shift key while right-clicking on the program’s title bar and hold the shift key while clicking on the program’s title bar. By pressing Windows-Alt-Down on the keyboard, the utility can be configured.

   To exit RBTray, right-click on one of the minimized apps icons in the system tray and select exit. The tool is able to make the selected panel remain on top of others using preset keyboard shortcuts (Win-T). It doesn’t come with support for a built-in option that could help you run the program at Windows startup, so you need to manually create s shortcut to the executable file in the start menu folder.

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   4t Tray MinimizerFree

   4t Tray Minimizer is a powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via various actions, such as minimize to tray, roll up & down, and hide & show efficacies. It can hide the system tray icons to let the users easily read the buttons on the taskbar. To make the system tray reappear, simply place the mouse cursor at the edge of the taskbar, where the tray is hidden.

   Customers can quickly launch the desktop icons even if a lot of windows occupy the Desktop. The app’s installer includes a setup wizard for setting basic options such as launching at startup and displaying a system tray icon. The program offers several ways to activate its functions, including hotkeys, menus, and control of the icons. The title bar is a set of small, mostly transparent set of buttons that blend perfectly with the Minimize, Maximize, and close buttons in Windows’ upper right border and appear in any non-excluded function.

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   HideWinFree

   HideWin is a system tray-oriented utility that enables you to hide any top-level window with its popup tray menu or an ALT+letter hotkey that it assigns automatically. It doesn’t require installation and offers no user interface or confirmation after running its executable file. The users can restore all the Windows at one time or individually, starting with the most recently hidden window.

   It is particularly useful for removing the message, banners, advertisements, and popups placed on the screen by numerous ISPs and websites but can be used to hide any operating toolbar by any program. Sometimes ISPs terminate an internet connection if a message bar window is closed. HideWin solves this problem by simply hiding and not closing the specifications. When specifying a window title, capitalization and spacing are important. If the title string doesn’t match the title exactly, it will not be hidden.

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   Minimize To Tray ToolFree

   Minimize To Tray Tool is a utility that allows the user to minimize any application to the Windows system tray with an icon. Applications can be added to the list of to be minimized apps by dragging and dropping a target image on the app’s window. It is not necessary to explicitly tell the app each time you want to minimize the tray to a specific tool, but it is only needed to specify the filename, and then the relevant program will be compressed automatically.

   A window is hidden from the taskbar, and a small notification icon appears in the notification area when a program-enabled operating functionality is reduced. Moreover, its key features include the following: manual and automated mode of work, start & forget, title-oriented file templates compatibility, and portable efficacy.

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   SmartSystemMenuFree

   SmartSystemMenu is a handy light application for Windows that adds useful context menu options to nearly any program, including information, alignment, resize, and other operating functionalities. It is an open-source program that works on Windows XP and above, and it requires NET Framework 4.0 with 32-bit and 64-bit compatible versions. The context menu lists nine options, including the information, Always on Top, Save Window Screenshot, Copy text to the clipboard, resize, alignment, transparency, priority, and system tray.

   The information option displays details about the current window, including the process’s location, name, and caption. The utility doesn’t need to be installed but can be set to auto-start as some of the options can be helpful in multi-monitor setups as well. It allows for rolling up & down the current window and aero glass blur to the current window. Moreover, transparency allows to change the current window, and alignment lets the users align with any of the nine positions on the desktop.

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   GhostTilePaid

   GhostTile is a program that hides running applications from Dock in multiple ways like drag & drop, folder selection, and icon positioning in the operating system. It ensures per-app configuration to hide or add menu bar items and per-app keyboard shortcuts to quickly open it. The app provides notifications in the toolbar for added apps with Dock activities.

   It offers multiple ways to quickly switch back, such as expose-like overview, click on the menu bar, call out quick switch window, Alias folder on Dock. Moreover, it carries some unique features: keyboard shortcut support, Alfred v2 Workflow, easy installation, support sandboxed application, and no on-disk modification.

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   Clicky GoneFree

   Clicky Gone is an operating utility that allows you to hide the selected windows from view, including the taskbar button associated with the application. This makes it easy to hide a browser window with your personal information when someone walks by or free up space on the taskbar taken up by background windows. It doesn’t require closing the applications if they are taking up too much space on the desktop or taskbar.

   Each hidden window can optionally be placed as a small icon in the system tray for easy recovery. This is a very small application that can reduce the load on the computer by running hidden apps in the background so that they do not interfere with the visible ones. The users can manage an app’s priority manually by using its system menu, and this menu can be found by right-clicking on the title bar or taskbar button. Its key features include: keyboard modifiers, toggle the windows, boss key support, fancy menu, process priority, system tray, and transparency effect.

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    Moo0 WindowMenuPlusFree

    Moo0 WindowMenuPlus is a simple tool that can add extra entries to the system window menu and taskbar button with everything from keeping on top to kill the process. It lives in the system tray known as the notification area, and its menu accesses entries labeled Turn On, Show/Hide, Language, and Start on System Boot, in addition to About and Exit. Clicking on the accessed version information includes the contacts, Sound Recorder, Notepad, Paint, SysConfig, links, and program’s Web page.

    The menu can be accessed by right-clicking on any window’s title bar or taskbar button, and users can configure it not to show the ones they don’t use. This tool can add an additional options there such as “Keep on Top,” “Process Priority Adjustment,” “Various Information about the Program,” and so forth.

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    Min2TrayFree

    Min2Tray is a utility for MS WindowsTM NT and higher efficacy to minimize and hide a window to the system tray area of the taskbar as an icon. Keeping multiple windows opened at the same time can clutter the desktop, as well as the taskbar on minimization. A workaround for this is to send some of the windows to the system tray instead since they occupy little space there with small icons. It requires no installation and silently runs in the systray, awaiting the command.

    Unless you read the documentation included in the downloaded package, it can get started by heading over to the preferences panel for configuration. For example, the user can ask Min2Tray to send windows to the systray when clicking the close button and when activating a particular hotkey. A boss key list can be created with multiple windows to apply the same action to all of them at the same time. In blacklist mode, the tool minimizes all windows which have been opened on the PC, and the user can hide tray icons of the minimized toolbar with stealth mode.

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    ZoneSizeFree

    ZoneSize is described as the defined zones that auto-size windows dropped on them and is an application with a small space and functionality. The user can hold a window over a zone for .5 sec to auto-size it and double-click the tray icon to center the active window.

    These utilities are often written in the AutoHotkey scripting language, and downloads are available both as pre-compiled .exe files and as .ahk scripts that can be customized. It is compatible with Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, and 98 operating systems as desktop enhancement efficacy.

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    WinWardenFree

    WinWarden is a portable operating utility that automatically controls how to display a window by utilizing navigation tools and controlling commands. It provides the users with a systray option for active window display control and additionally supports hotkeys as well. WinWarden permits you to stick to the edge of the screen, roll up & down, morph wide/tall/zoom in or zoom out depending on what operators are working on.

    These utilities are often written in the AutoHotkey scripting language, and downloads are available both as pre-compiled .exe files or as .ahk scripts that can be customized. The application gets activated by double-clicking the tray icon to center the active window. Its features include the following: move, minimize, maximize, restore, enable, disable, hide, show, on top, bottom, always on top, clip, transparent or color, move relative to another window, and stick to the edge of the screen, center, run a program.

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    Chameleon Window ManagerFreemium

    Chameleon Window Manager is an organizer-based software that allows you to customize the behavior of all windows and add buttons with additional functions to the title bar. The users can add a button to windows in the following two modes: include them in all windows with the possibility to disable them where required and add them to the specified operating toolbar. With this utility, customers can automatically close unnecessary operating apps, specify the size and position, move the display menu to a specific monitor, set transparency, minimize them to the taskbar, and much more.

    There are several strategies to get the target. I.e. select a predefined layout, move the window to the edge or corner of the screen to position it in the corresponding part of the display. Additionally, draw the window position by selecting desktop on the grid or create a separate rule for automatic repositioning and resizing. To make it easier to customize the behavior of separate windows, the users can create general rules and apply them with one click. Moreover, several configurations can be created, and the settings can be changed for all windows in one go.

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